did you know you can just bike around a lake

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

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Caity Weaver@caity.bsky.social · last yr.

IMPORTANT QUESTION: What is the best free restaurant bread in the United States? (ANY restaurant is eligible, but the bread must be free provided free to *every* table.)

astronomy is so funny because it's this fairly niche interest for a small community of nerds and also it's 99.9999% of everything that exists

I used to do sum(map(ord, "fun phrase of the day"))

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I firmly believe that if you use 42 or 1234 your results aren’t really yours. It’s like the totems from inception. You need a special number.

i think this is basically always the case in astronomy research

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 7mo ago

one of the big problems with the "we're shifting the nature of the work to specifying outcomes" is that it presumes you already understand the problem in sufficient depth to specify an outcome (in natural language, no less, which is by its nature imprecise)

have revised this take: i think i was underrating how much intuition building happens as part of the process of writing science code. Claude can get to many subproblem answers faster than I can but I end up feeling hollow - missing a sense of satisfaction I didn't know I had till it was gone

Aditya Sengupta@adiastra.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ok I have a take here: i don't inherently mind ai generated code if it moves the person's focus to writing tests/sanity checking, because that should be happening for human written code too and is arguably where the physics is. But you do have to actually do the checks, and lots of ai users don't

My paper demonstrating second-stage wavefront control using a photonic lantern at the Shane 3m telescope at Lick Observatory has been published in the Astronomical Journal! Good start to the year! doi.org/10.3847/1538... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

as someone who may not be a researcher if not for prof layton this is so sad but also, not clear to me if this is more like "we should let ai write the layton puzzles" or "we should write the game in cursor instead of vscode" - even when specified to genai we seem to have terminology issues

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 10mo ago

Professor Layton Boss Wants People To Stop Demonizing Generative AI

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wrote some custom curses for jet lag hide and seek on bikes in Santa Cruz!

Wow look who's at the top of astro-ph.IM today arxiv.org/list/astro-p...

Presenting my new ball tampering innovation, where I add a tiny speaker that activates within an inch of the bat

a good amount of cricket commentary is like "you may not realize it but it'd be good for the batting side to get more runs"

me but at age 24

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Finally driving my first EV and can’t be the only middle aged dad now *obsessed* with regenerative braking and getting as many miles as humanly possible.

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

LA!

I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity

forming a strong opinion about intentional walking only minutes after learning about the concept

It’s a big day for fans of baseball, or as the rest of the world calls it, “American Cricket”

beginning to think test cricket's time limits are very reasonable

Every number's a Love number if you love numbers

New paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry? This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

I actually kind of want to hear from people who dislike mathfiction. What stops you from engaging with a story with math in it? What would draw you to trying one out? #Writersky #Writing #SFF

Arula Ratnakar@arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · last yr.

But it will have math— that’s not going away in my stories ever. I personally think mathematical beauty is worth studying in stories, just like love, or friendship, or ambition, or cosmic awe, or death, or literally any other source of inspiration for literature.

Really wondering what AI is gonna think cricket is about

drinking water >>>>>

analytic and algebraic topology of locally euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable riemannian manifold

Thanks Jarrod what would I do without this insight

We built computers to do math for us

the bay bridge has a bike lane but only halfway across, so if you wanted to bike from the East Bay to SF for the 4th of July fireworks you'd have to bike all the way north to Point Richmond, across to Marin, and down across the Golden Gate Bridge. But that'd be ridiculous right